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hawkeye60 · 02-12-2004, 09:05 PM

Just acquired an used PC and need to format the hard drive. The drive has Win XP loaded but has not been activated and usage ends in 20 days. I do not have access to the XP disk.
I need to format the drive but only has a Win98 boot disk. Having got into DOS I tried format c: but the command is not recognised.

Can anyone suggest the easiest way to format this drive please?

02-12-2004, 09:05 PM	#1 (permalink) Top
hawkeye60 Geek Trainee Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 21 Status: Offline	Formatting hard drive Just acquired an used PC and need to format the hard drive. The drive has Win XP loaded but has not been activated and usage ends in 20 days. I do not have access to the XP disk. I need to format the drive but only has a Win98 boot disk. Having got into DOS I tried format c: but the command is not recognised. Can anyone suggest the easiest way to format this drive please? Last edited by hawkeye60; 02-12-2004 at 09:06 PM. Reason: extra info